Surprise????

[Ancient Iron]

I recently went to an car show and swap meet here on Long Island and found a small KR-65 Snap On box. No key. I got it for ten bucks and there is something inside. Box is pretty heavy. I sent away for a key and will soon see what surprises are in it. Any one want to guess as to it's contents? Stay tuned.

 

[Shiftless]

Nice looking box probably from the 1960’s right? For $10, you got a good deal no matter what is inside.
Do we get any clues?
Does it rattle like small loose things such as sockets or not much rattling like maybe a single larger solid object?
Without any clues, I’d guess it contains primarily sockets and ratchet handles.
Maybe diagnostic equipment.

 

[Ancient Iron]

I found this exact box in a 1948 Snap-On catalog. That's what i think. Small loose things .Probably sockets. The suspense is killer.

 

[Beerhippie]

A handful of those plastic inserts for anchoring to drywall/masonry. Various assorted wood screw with stripped out heads. A tube of Indian Head/Permatex gasket maker that has leaked and is gluing all of the above in place. A girly picture on the inside of the cover.

 

[Shiftless]

A handful of those plastic inserts for anchoring to drywall/masonry. Various assorted wood screw with stripped out heads. A tube of Indian Head/Permatex gasket maker that has leaked and is gluing all of the above in place. A girly picture on the inside of the cover.

Best answer so far.

 

[Ancient Iron]

When I get the key and open it I'll post pic's A girly pic would make it all the better

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I recently went to an car show and swap meet here on Long Island and found a small KR-65 Snap On box.

Nice find! I'm jealous. My collection of Snappy midget end wrenches, 9/32- and 1/4-inch drive socket wrenches and tools has burgeoned beyond the two much smaller snap-lid cases the sets came in and I would love to find a KR-65 in the wild one day. They were all the rage here about 10 years ago. I'll see if I can find the thread.

 

[four.cycle]

I'm willing to put money on Barbara Eden not popping out of that box.

 

[four.cycle]

oh... and the other thing that it's not to be:
an assortment of NOS 10mm Snap-on sockets.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

That didn't take long. There are a few of them on this thread...

Who has a really small tool box?

Sorry if there is a thread like this, I didn't see one with search... Anyone have a really small tool box? My 'little' box... What's in it? Well... (Old photo) At that time it had: (I ain't quoting part numbers) -SO medium sized side cutters -SO duck bills -SO ratchet screwdriver...

www.garagejournal.com

 

[four.cycle]

A handful of those plastic inserts for anchoring to drywall/masonry. Various assorted wood screw with stripped out heads. A tube of Indian Head/Permatex gasket maker that has leaked and is gluing all of the above in place. A girly picture on the inside of the cover.

What?
You don't think he's going to find any valve stem cores, used electrical terminals, or burned-out glass tube fuses?

 

[micromind]

A few sticks of dynamite. Old enough for the liquid to be beading on the outside.......

A jar of nuclear waste.

A miniature nuclear bomb.

 

[bigredcornhead]

Its like how many jelly beans are in the jar, I'm game. I'm gonna say one general purpose hammer, two obnoixously big wooden handled screws drivers, and a piece of oil soaked rag!

Last minute update....either a cresent werench or an older, "S" wrench with no makers marks!

 

[Ed in Virginia]

Some of Jimmy Hoffa's body parts?

 

[Shiftless]

Probably not this.

 

[Oldsnapper]

I have 2 of these boxes. They work very well as a travel box in a vehicle, The one you have is an early model with only the lock to keep it closed. The later models included a flip latch on the front.

 

[driftpin]

Two postage stamp-sized rubber patches and a tube of Western Auto Wizard glue, rolled-up about halfway, so you can still read the front label, and the tube is hard as a rock. Its black plastic screw-on top is cross-threaded, sitting crooked on the tube threads.

A Globe 7" long 5/16" slotted head screwdriver with an uncomfortably narrow-diameter yellow fluted plastic handle. and a slightly-bent tip, from using it to pry-open something.

A nearly used-up can of Simoniz paste wax w/a small rag from a blue flannel shirt, saturated with the wax.

Two SAE-threaded license plate jewelled studs, blue, and one has its stamped steel wing nut, the other is missing.

A dog-bone wrench for 8 sizes of nuts.

A single handlebar streamer in red and white for someone's bicycle.

A quarter-inch allen key. Imperial sizing.

A 'churchkey' with a Ballantine Ale emblem.

Various orphan fasteners huddling together for protection.

Three grain of wheat 1 cent pieces.

Two buffalo nickels.

A single Mercury dime.

A Buffalo 1/2" combination wrench.

 

[cody1325]

A bunch of random bolts, an old lottery ticket, two fuel receipts from 1982, a few parts to something you can't identify, and an unidentified, hard-as-a-rock tube of "something"

 

[Old Man Roger]

WHATS IN THE BOX?

 

[Ancient Iron]

I'm willing to put money on Barbara Eden not popping out of that box.

I wish Barbara Eden has been my favorite since I'm a kid

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I think it's funny how so many people from different parts of the country find the same things in old toolboxes from the same era. The only thing I would add is paint splatter. If there are any screwdrivers or spinners or anything with a handle (too small for anything but a 2 oz softfaced hammer you might find in a large ignition work set), it will be sure to have paint splatter on it. Cuz the old timers apparently never painted anything without first moving all their tools as close as possible.

I'll go opposite and optimistic: pieces from an original ca. 1948 Snap-on 1189-TMC-B 1/4-inch drive Combination Midget and Carburetor Utility set, including a GM-70-M ratchet, a TM-4 spinner, some TMC- sockets, a TM-61 flextension, and a few C-series ignition wrenches, Vaccum-Grip mini-pliers, and a No. 020 offset screwdriver.

(OP did say it was "pretty heavy.")

Oh, and I can't believe @Old Man Roger didn't say, "Sawset."

 

[Ancient Iron]

All your replies are priceless my Mrs. was laughing as we read through them.

 

[Skyman]

I recently went to an car show and swap meet here on Long Island and found a small KR-65 Snap On box. No key. I got it for ten bucks and there is something inside. Box is pretty heavy. I sent away for a key and will soon see what surprises are in it. Any one want to guess as to it's contents? Stay tuned.

Nice score. Suspense would be killin' me, so I'd pick that sucker open pronto. There's no way I'd be able to wait days or weeks for a key to arrive.

 

[Beerhippie]

The only thing I would add is paint splatter.

Yep. This applies to Coleman stoves and lanterns, too.

"Honey, before you paint the kitchen can you bring all the tools and camping gear in?"

 

[Snaparxon]

Looks to me like either way you win for $10. Nice find sir!

 

[ecotec]

I wish Barbara Eden has been my favorite since I'm a kid

You know that she is 94…

 

[Old Man Roger]

Oh, and I can't believe @Old Man Roger didn't say, "Sawset."

Dammit!

You know that she is 94…

But man was she aaaaaaaaaaaamazing as Jeanie.

 

[ecotec]

Dammit!

But man was she aaaaaaaaaaaamazing as Jeanie.

She was a smoke show.

 

[mrb1]

Any one want to guess as to it's contents? Stay tuned.

A key to open it probably And maybe a half a pack of Lucky Strikes or Pall Malls.

 

[RTM]

Cut off piece of rusty C channel, approx 6” long, by 1-1/2” wide, by 1/2” tall.

 

[INSP380]

One bent glass cutter and a Sucrets tin full of greasey bent cotter pins..

Steve

 

[3baygarage]

Ok I'll play.

-broken 1/4" Snap-On ratchet
- half of a set of Oxwall sockets.
-handful of Allen wrenches
-1 matchbook from a long defunct ski lodge
-a small ingot of lead
-random brass fittings with lots of grit on them
- a key chain with no keys

 

[humber2]

Several time expired discount coupons.

 

[Wrench97]

Perhaps it's the missing treasure from Oak Island?

 

[Debcrow]

A Lawn Dart
Beer bottle and soda bottle caps.
A TV guide from 1972
A floppy disk
Video Arcade token
A Walkman Cassette tape player and a 8 track tape of "Tip Toe Through the Tulips" that will of course not work in the cassette player.

 

[Ancient Iron]

Looks to me like either way you win for $10. Nice find sir!

Thank you Sir.

 

[yatg]

 

[PlanB]

Hopefully its not evidence

 

[jd_1138]

Might be a tiny shriveled up mummified corpse of a rather diminutive goodfella type by the name of "Too Short Vinnie" who pissed off a certain higher up boss back in 1974 by scratching his '73 Caddy whilst taking it to get detailed for the boss.

 

[esben57]

Has to be an 'educational' video on how to access that lock with two paper clips.
Would have been in there quick smart, I would.







Edit.
I don't like surprises. Especially when I don't expect them.